February 1, 2009 (2009-02-01 ) (Sunday)
February 2, 2009 (2009-02-02 ) (Monday)
February 3, 2009 (2009-02-03 ) (Tuesday)
February 4, 2009 (2009-02-04 ) (Wednesday)
February 5, 2009 (2009-02-05 ) (Thursday)
February 6, 2009 (2009-02-06 ) (Friday)
February 7, 2009 (2009-02-07 ) (Saturday)
February 8, 2009 (2009-02-08 ) (Sunday)
February 9, 2009 (2009-02-09 ) (Monday)
February 10, 2009 (2009-02-10 ) (Tuesday)
February 11, 2009 (2009-02-11 ) (Wednesday)
February 12, 2009 (2009-02-12 ) (Thursday)
Colgan Air
Flight 3407 crashes in
Clarence Center ,
New York , killing 50 people.
(Buffalo News)
(CNN)
The
United States
National Transportation Safety Board concludes that
Canada geese caused
US Airways
Flight 1549 to
ditch into
New York City 's
Hudson River .
(CNN)
Pope
Benedict XVI condemns any
denial of
the Holocaust as "intolerable and altogether unacceptable".
(New York Times )
Republican
Senator
Judd Gregg of
New Hampshire withdraws his nomination as
U.S.
Secretary of Commerce .
(BBC)
Iraq 's
Parliament demands
reparations from
Israel for an attack on a
nuclear reactor in
1981 .
(Haaretz) .
Hamas agrees to an 18-month
truce in its
conflict with
Israel , which has not yet responded.
(Al Jazeera )
Ford's Theatre in
Washington, D.C. reopens for the
bicentennial of
assassinated
U.S.
President
Abraham Lincoln 's birth.
(BBC)
Late 2000s recession :
A man is arrested after threatening
self-immolation outside the
Government Buildings in
Dublin ,
Ireland .
(RTÉ)
Taliban
militants kill 26 people in attacks on three
government buildings in
Kabul ,
Afghanistan .
(Sky News)
Venezuelan
President
Hugo Chávez alleges that the
Army attempted to
overthrow his
government .
(AFP via France 24) [
permanent dead link ]
Australia announces a
national day of mourning for victims of
bushfires in
Victoria .
(CNN)
The
European Parliament in
Brussels ,
Belgium , is
robbed .
(RTÉ)
Indian businessman
Moninder Singh Pandher and his
servant ,
Surender Koli , are
convicted of
murder .
(BBC)
Dutch
Member of
Parliament and
Islam
critic
Geert Wilders is denied entry into the
United Kingdom .
(BBC)
Microsoft places a
US$ 250,000
bounty on the
Conficker
computer worm 's creator.
(PC World )
China 's
Sanlu Group declares
bankruptcy , due to the country's
2008 milk scandal .
(BBC)
February 13, 2009 (2009-02-13 ) (Friday)
February 14, 2009 (2009-02-14 ) (Saturday)
February 15, 2009 (2009-02-15 ) (Sunday)
February 16, 2009 (2009-02-16 ) (Monday)
February 17, 2009 (2009-02-17 ) (Tuesday)
February 18, 2009 (2009-02-18 ) (Wednesday)
February 19, 2009 (2009-02-19 ) (Thursday)
February 20, 2009 (2009-02-20 ) (Friday)
February 21, 2009 (2009-02-21 ) (Saturday)
February 22, 2009 (2009-02-22 ) (Sunday)
Slumdog Millionaire wins eight
Academy Awards , including
Best Picture and
Director for
Danny Boyle .
Sean Penn wins
Best Actor for
Milk and
Kate Winslet wins
Best Actress for
The Reader .
(The Daily Mail ) A
bomb kills one person and injures 20 others in the
Khan el-Khalili
souq of
Cairo ,
Egypt .
(Reuters)
An
Al-Shabaab
suicide attack kills at least 11 and injures 15 more
Burundian
peacekeepers on an
African Union
military base in
Mogadishu ,
Somalia .
(BBC)
Greek
convicts
Vassilis Paleokostas and Alket Rizai
escape from
Athens '
Korydallos Prison via a helicopter.
(BBC)
Iraq 's
Abu Ghraib prison reopens under the new name
Baghdad Central Prison .
(Washington Post )
Vietnamese
Prime Minister
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng inaugurates the country's
first
oil refinery .
(AFP via Google News)
At least 73
miners die following an
explosion in a
coal mine in
Gujiao ,
Shanxi ,
China .
(Bloomberg)
Australia holds a
national day of mourning for the 209 confirmed victims of
recent bushfires in
Victoria .
(Melbourne Herald Sun )
The
Tamil Tigers
kill 10 people in
Kirimetiyagara ,
Sri Lanka .
(AFP via The Melbourne Age )
An
outbreak of
hepatitis B in
Gujarat ,
India , kills at least 38 people.
(CNN)
Somali
pirates hijack
Greece 's
MV Saldanha in the
Gulf of Aden .
(AFP via Google News)
The
European Council meets in
Berlin ,
Germany , to discuss the
current economic crisis .
(BBC)
February 23, 2009 (2009-02-23 ) (Monday)
February 24, 2009 (2009-02-24 ) (Tuesday)
February 25, 2009 (2009-02-25 ) (Wednesday)
February 26, 2009 (2009-02-26 ) (Thursday)
United States
President
Barack Obama will withdraw most
soldiers from the
Iraq
War by August 2010.
(CNN)
The
Bangladesh
Rifles
surrender after the
government promises
amnesty .
(BBC)
Palestinian groups
Hamas and
Fatah begin
peace
deliberations in
Cairo ,
Egypt .
(New York Times )
The
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
acquits former
Serbian
President
Milan Milutinović of committing
war crimes .
(New York Times )
General Motors reports a
US$ 9.6 billion loss, due to the
current automotive industry crisis .
(New York Times )
Switzerland 's
UBS AG appoints former
Credit Suisse
CEO
Oswald Grübel as its new Group CEO.
(BBC)
China 's
Navy and
Denmark 's
Navy rescue
Italian and Chinese
merchant vessels from
Somali
pirates in the
Gulf of Aden .
(BBC)
The
Marriott Hotel in
Islamabad ,
Pakistan , catches fire, five months after it was
bombed .
(BBC)
Latvian
President
Valdis Zatlers names former
Finance Minister
Valdis Dombrovskis as the new
Prime Minister .
(BBC)
Ajmal Kasab , the 2008
Mumbai
attacks ' lone surviving gunman, is charged with waging
war against
India .
(Sky News)
The
Royal Bank of Scotland Group reports a 2008 loss of
£ 24.1 billion.
(BBC)
Thirteen thousand
civil servants stage a one-day
strike action in
Ireland .
(RTÉ)
Former
Guinean
President
Lansana Conté 's eldest son confesses to
drug trafficking .
(BBC)
An
outbreak of
dengue fever in
Bolivia has killed 18 people and infected 31,000.
(BBC)
The
University of Reading identifies the oldest words in the
English language .
(BBC)
A study by the
scientific journal
Nature shows that
HIV is
evolving to
resist the
human immune system .
(BBC)
The earliest
footprints evidencing modern
human foot
anatomy and
gait are discovered in
Koobi Fora ,
Kenya .
(BBC)
The
Svalbard Global Seed Vault receives 90,000
food
crop
seed samples.
(BBC)
The
United States
Defense Department allows
news agencies to publicize photographs of the
coffins of
soldiers killed in
Iraq and
Afghanistan .
(BBC)
The
Rocky Mountain News , one of Colorado's largest newspapers, publishes its last issue. This issue hits the streets the following morning.[www.9news.com]
February 27, 2009 (2009-02-27 ) (Friday)
February 28, 2009 (2009-02-28 ) (Saturday)
